American CEO maps premium-led path to close $3B profit gap

Robert Isom lays out a premium-focused plan to close American’s roughly $3 billion profit gap by boosting premium revenue through refreshed cabins and bigger lounges, expanding the loyalty program, growing the network, and pursuing a new wide-body aircraft order, while balancing debt relief efforts; United merger talk is dismissed, and analysts expect roughly 64 cents in adjusted earnings per share this year.